{"id":25570,"date":"2015-02-05T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25570"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T06:45:06","slug":"poseidonia-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/poseidonia-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Poseidonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Paestum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26499\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Paestum.png\" alt=\"Paestum\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>P<\/strong><strong>oseidonia <\/strong>was the original name for the Roman city of Paestum, situated south of Naples, founded by Greek colonists around 600 BC. It was partly flooded and largely forgotten until a number of well-preserved\u00a0Greek temples\u00a0were rediscovered in the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, the city was established in a region of southern Italy, described by Plato as being part of Atlantean territory!<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Major (1720-1799), a royal engraver, visited the site in 1767 and described the ruins of Paestum in an illustrated 1768 book, <em>The Ruins of Paestum, otherwise Posidonia, in Magna Graecia <\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>1644<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Poseidonia, is also the name of a village on the Cycladic island of Syros.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poseidonia was the original name for the Roman city of Paestum, situated south of Naples, founded by Greek colonists around 600 BC. It was partly flooded and largely forgotten until a number of well-preserved\u00a0Greek temples\u00a0were rediscovered in the 18th century. Coincidentally, the city was established in a region of southern Italy, described by Plato as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311,3622,3621,3893,5981],"class_list":["post-25570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cyclades","tag-paestum","tag-poseidonia","tag-syros","tag-thomas-major"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}